Top 30 Lydia Millet Quotes
#1. We don't want to be the conquistadors. We want to be Charles Darwin.
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#2. Mer-people could be read as a colonialist term, explained the biologist.
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#3. Then he would get into a plane and leave the field wide open; the field was crammed with paralegals, all of them stoutly armed with condoms.
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#4. Kate Bernheimer's fiction offers a unique and delicate gift, the tempting mirage of a grace that constantly escapes. The Complete Tales of Merry Gold is an exceptional, lovely book, beautifully enigmatic, speaking a language that mysteriously evokes the unspoken.
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#5. Suffering ignites the spark of contact with the sublime and offers proof of humanity ...
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#7. Stay in these rooms for years and years, live on forever in a glorious museum.
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#8. We need people like you, Dobson," said Gina. "In academia, where I work. Man, do we ever need people like you. People who have been trained. To do the high-level work. Such as killing.
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#9. Suffering itself is beloved: love and suffering are far closer to each other than love and pleasure.
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#10. Aw, group hug! No one's a mindless robot anymore. Score!
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#11. It is not learning we need at all. Individuals need learning but the culture needs something else, the pulse of light on the sea, the warm urge of huddling together to keep out the cold. We need empathy, we need the eyes that still can weep.
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#12. Helplessness was the one true fountain of youth.
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#13. Plus if there were really mermaids, I hoped they didn't look like Ariel.
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#14. I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and bald as a road. But memory is never like that. It makes hills of feeling in collapsed hours, a scene of enclosure made all precious by its frame.
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#15. Oh how the world reflected you in its unending streams of atoms, churning atoms out of which significance beamed
significance, but not purpose.
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#16. If you're the kind of person who wants to know what's at the end of the universe, what's at the edge of being ... and comprehension settles on you that you'll never know, despair can well up.
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#18. We have seen these bodies, she would think, and even long after we are gone some particle in the universe will hold a memory of the words we once used to describe their beauty.
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#20. Called by the sirens and followed by an albatross.
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#21. Freudian Slip: When You Mean One Thing And Say Your Mother.
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#22. Beneath the violet pillar, in the vacuum before the roar of the cloud, there came a soft sound that might have been heard by those who listened closely: the gentle sigh of an idea unbound.
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#23. One man's weakness is another man's mercy.
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#24. We're so many, we're so hard to distinguish from each other, but we long to be distinguished ...
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#25. The gun is mightier than the pen, was our true opinion, and the RPG is mightier still.
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#26. What place would that be, a whole world without roads? It was a panicking thought. A world without roads! He would go nowhere in such a place. He would be trapped where he was, he would have lived out his life only where he was born.
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#27. Love of knowledge can draw on its credit indefinitely ... love of knowledge is iron-clad.
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#28. Although she didn't have the plumbing, she deluded herself that she was the modern W.C. (about Margaret Thatcher, M.T.)
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#29. The word suffering is full and whole and perfect as a pierced heart, sweet, rushing and tender ... Suffering is the joy of someone about to be martyred, illumination of something given up as an offer.
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#30. We were a roiling mass of opinion, most of it mean. Here we sat at civilization's technological peak, and what we chose to do on that shining pinnacle was hate each other's guts.
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